The Breath of Christ

Atoms are pretty small. If you put a million of them side by side, the lineup would be no longer than the period at the end of this sentence. The head of a pin contains more than 10-to-the-18th-Power atoms. One breath of air,about 1 liter (1000 cm3, about a quart), contains more than 10-to-the-22nd-Power atoms.

Now, 10-to-the-22nd-Power happens to be about the number of liters of air in the earth's atmosphere, too, which leads to an interesting conclusion. Any particular parcel of air, such as the liter of air you will exhale in your next breath, mixes throughout earth's atmosphere during the next few years. This means that of the air you exhaled a few years ago in any particular breath, about one or two atoms are now in every liter of air on earth and inside the lungs of every person on earth. And one or two atoms breathed out by every person on earth, in any particular breath, are in your lungs now. One or two atoms from george washington's first breath, from his dying breath, and from every other breath he ever took, are in your lungs right now. So are atoms from each of the breaths of all the other people who have ever lived. We all are breathing one another.

Atoms are ageless.

...These thoughts were found in a Physics Book by a friend of mine who then shared it with me. We can conclude with an awe of inspiration that we literally have the Breath of Christ living inside of us. This very thought is heartwarming. Yet, the dark side of this theory also would imply that we all have the Breath of Hitler living inside of us as well.

Even on a microscopic level, we have both the greatest good and the greatest evil living within us...waiting for us to determine which atoms we will choose to allow to flourish.